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promising

[prom-uh-sing] / ˈprɒm ə sɪŋ /


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My advice is simple: Slow down, diversify, independently verify who is managing the money, and be skeptical of anything promising unusually high or consistent returns.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

When I saw a video of a run club called Barrio Athletics promising that it would be “taking over” Leimert Park on Sept. 6, I thought:

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

"Our overall survival data is very promising and will hopefully persist with additional patients," Cunniff said.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Each year more than 600 of the state's most promising teenage rowers battle it out on the crocodile-inhabited Fitzroy River, in the city of Rockhampton.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

She went to Aeolus, the King of the Winds, who had tried to help Ulysses, and asked him to sink the Trojan ships, promising him in return her loveliest nymph for his wife.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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